Mark Feeney

Mark Feeney

Agrees with the Tomatometer 66% of the time.

Biography:
Boston Globe film critic.
Publications:
Boston Globe
Total Reviews:
161

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
2/4 88% Girl Rising (2013) " The price of good intentions is that it looks and feels like an extended public-service announcement for goodness." — Boston Globe
Posted Apr 18, 2013
2.5/4 56% Oblivion (2013) " Sometimes Oblivion can be pretty oblivious." — Boston Globe
Posted Apr 18, 2013
3/4 89% Koch (2013) " What he really was was one of a kind. Whether intentionally or not, "Koch" shows that that's not necessarily a bad thing." — Boston Globe
Posted Apr 11, 2013
2.5/4 57% High Tech, Low Life (2013) " "High Tech, Low Life" (not a good title) has a nice easy rhythm. It feels neither hurried nor emphatic." — Boston Globe
Posted Apr 4, 2013
2.5/4 92% Free Angela & All Political Prisoners (2013) " People who weren't around during the '60s-'70s cusp can hardly appreciate just how weird that time was. "Free Angela" brings that weirdness back." — Boston Globe
Posted Apr 4, 2013
1.5/4 65% Starbuck (2013) " Bertrand does his jelly-belly best to keep "Starbuck" a comedy. But even the broadest shtick can't prevent a movie that features a Busby Berkeley-style group hug from becoming a male weepie." — Boston Globe
Posted Mar 28, 2013
3/4 29% Upside Down (2013) " "Upside Down" gives you four movies for the price of one." — Boston Globe
Posted Mar 14, 2013
2/4 31% Emperor (2013) " It's a rich and significant subject for scholars, but not exactly filmic." — Boston Globe
Posted Mar 7, 2013
3/4 92% Little Fugitive (The Coney Island Kid ) (1953) " That the filmmakers were able to make "Little Fugitive" at all is kind of miraculous, but the miraculousness has its limits." — Boston Globe
Posted Mar 5, 2013
1.5/4 89% A Place at the Table (2013) " A tighter focus, or even just a voiceover narration, might have helped." — Boston Globe
Posted Feb 28, 2013
1.5/4 85% How To Re-establish A Vodka Empire () " Too many of the scenes here - a busted elevator, walking an elderly dog - seem included because Edelstyn didn't have any sense of structure or, worse, what exactly he was after." — Boston Globe
Posted Feb 27, 2013
3/4 87% Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2013) " The film has a relaxed, matter-of-fact feel." — Boston Globe
Posted Feb 14, 2013
2/4 80% Hitler's Children (2012) " The moral weight of "Hitler's Children" is unmistakable. So is that weight's inertness." — Boston Globe
Posted Jan 3, 2013
1.5/4 80% Orchestra Of Exiles (2012) " Writer-director Josh Aronson's flaccid "Orchestra of Exiles" squanders the material's promise." — Boston Globe
Posted Nov 22, 2012
3/4 98% Brooklyn Castle (2012) " Katie Dellamaggiore's lively and affecting documentary introduces us to a cast of characters that's very winning (in both senses of the word)." — Boston Globe
Posted Nov 15, 2012
1.5/4 —— Love And Other Anxieties () " "Love and Other Anxieties" is amiable and earnest and has the courage not to force answers to unanswerable questions. It's also tentative and pallid and seems a bit afraid of those questions." — Boston Globe
Posted Nov 1, 2012
2.5/4 45% The Details (2012) " The movie is many things, but a mess isn't one of them. Estes knows exactly what he wants. Whether it's worth wanting is another matter." — Boston Globe
Posted Nov 1, 2012
3/4 88% The Other Dream Team (2012) " Clearly, there's a story here. The documentary "The Other Dream Team" tells it in a smart, lively, if somewhat hectic fashion." — Boston Globe
Posted Oct 11, 2012
1.5/4 28% Backwards (2012) " The neatness of the plotting becomes almost comical after a while. Construction is one thing; contrivance is another." — Boston Globe
Posted Sep 27, 2012
1/4 65% Solomon Kane (2012) " Who knew there were skinhead and zombie equivalents in late-Elizabethan England?" — Boston Globe
Posted Sep 27, 2012
3/4 75% Chicken with Plums (2012) " "Predictability" is not in Satrapi and Paronnaud's vocabulary, and that is no small thing in this or any other movie era. But the whole those parts form never exceeds their sum." — Boston Globe
Posted Sep 20, 2012
2.5/4 —— What Time Is Left () " There's a callowness to "What Time Is Left" that's understandable in a first film - but dismaying in light of the subject of that film." — Boston Globe
Posted Sep 20, 2012
2.5/4 84% Detropia (2012) " "Detropia" feels somewhere between loose (which is good) and aimless (which isn't)." — Boston Globe
Posted Sep 20, 2012
0.5/4 0% Last Ounce of Courage (2012) " The problem with this numbskull travesty isn't that it's fatuous and smug (which it is). It's that it's slack and dull." — Boston Globe
Posted Sep 13, 2012
2.5/4 62% It Is No Dream: The Life of Theodor Herzl (2012) " Richard Trank's film is sober, detailed, and handsomely mounted. Ben Kingsley narrates, to excellent effect." — Boston Globe
Posted Sep 6, 2012
2/4 77% Samsara (2012) " The result is like an issue of National Geographic gone mad." — Boston Globe
Posted Sep 6, 2012
1/4 64% Kumaré (2012) " There's a Morgan Spurlock narcissism to "Kumaré." It could just as well have been called "Super-Spiritualize Me."" — Boston Globe
Posted Sep 6, 2012
0.5/4 54% The Inbetweeners (2012) " Who knew that when the "Porky's" movies (finally) died, they went to England?" — Boston Globe
Posted Sep 6, 2012
1/4 26% 2016: Obama's America (2012) " Viewers may do some headscratching. This can be a very strange movie." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 31, 2012
2.5/4 67% Lawless (2012) " Much of the action may be nearly as grim as in director John Hillcoat's previous feature, "The Road" - "Lawless" is very bloody - but the scenery and production design are a whole lot nicer." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 30, 2012
1.5/4 4% The Apparition (2012) " The entity is a ghostly presence amid an even ghostlier absence. This is truly distressed real estate." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 29, 2012
2/4 64% Cosmopolis (2012) " Poor Pattinson does the best he can. He's not terrible. But he's definitely out of his element, if not beyond his depth, an altar boy in a bishop's robes." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 23, 2012
2/4 76% Premium Rush (2012) " "Premium Rush" has a lot of energy - too much, it's kind of exhausting. It also has a lot of trickiness." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 23, 2012
2/4 87% Robot & Frank (2012) " "Robot & Frank" isn't sure whether it's a comedy or drama, buddy movie or sci-fi fantasy, family melodrama or social satire." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 23, 2012
0.5/4 89% Compliance (2012) " There is a level of stupidity displayed by the people in this movie that beggars belief. Their behavior is to stupidity as the Death Star is to a doughnut." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 23, 2012
2.5/4 48% Hit & Run (2012) " When Shepard's on, though, he's really on. There's hardly anything rote or predictable about "Hit & Run," other than its title." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 23, 2012
2/4 95% The Imposter (2012) " Beverly Dollarhide, Nicholas's mother, says of the period after her son's disappearance, "My main goal in life at that time was not to think." Apparently, the filmmakers have taken a cue from her." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 16, 2012
1.5/4 73% Dark Horse (2012) " Solondz has made a career out of specializing in highly aberrant views of middle-class life." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 9, 2012
2/4 74% Hope Springs (2012) " "Hope Springs" panders with the clumsiness of grown-ups trying to do "Step Up" dance moves." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 8, 2012
1.5/4 79% Klown (2012) " It can seem sometimes that Hollywood has a monopoly on stupid, obnoxious comedy. Anyone who sees "Klown" will learn otherwise." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 2, 2012
3/4 79% Ruby Sparks (2012) " Kazan isn't beautiful. She's not even pretty, at least not in any conventional way. But she's enormously attractive, and the camera can't get enough of that heart-shaped face and those bouncing bangs." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 2, 2012
3/4 86% Easy Money (2012) " The hand-held camerawork may be shaky, and the editing flit furiously - but Espinosa has them shaking and flitting on purpose." — Boston Globe
Posted Aug 2, 2012
3/4 79% Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2012) " Miike can't seem to get enough of Hanshiro's heroics. That's not just visual excess, though." — Boston Globe
Posted Jul 26, 2012
2.5/4 94% Farewell, My Queen (2012) " The guillotine's blade is, as yet, nowhere to be heard. But you can feel Jacquot's pleasure is slicing and dicing this material in novel ways." — Boston Globe
Posted Jul 26, 2012
2.5/4 90% The Well Digger's Daughter (2012) " Auteuil the director knows not to get in the way of Pagnol's plot machinery. Auteuil the actor is another story." — Boston Globe
Posted Jul 26, 2012
2/4 71% Sacrifice (2012) " Now who exactly are those two guys slurping noodles? Are they both doctors? Why do they matter?" — Boston Globe
Posted Jul 26, 2012
1/4 71% Natural Selection (2012) " [Harris is] the one good thing in "Natural Selection."" — Boston Globe
Posted Jul 5, 2012
2.5/4 100% The Invisible War (2012) " "The Invisible War" makes all too clear that the military isn't very good at justice." — Boston Globe
Posted Jul 5, 2012
2/4 21% Madea's Witness Protection (2012) " Reviewing a Tyler Perry movie is a bit like reviewing the weather report." — Boston Globe
Posted Jul 1, 2012
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